stuck on
Adjective
Meaning
(slang, idiomatic, of a person) Infatuated with; romantically attracted to; in love with.
(idiomatic, of a thing, fact, etc.) Fascinated by; enchanted by.
(idiomatic, of a problem, thing, or situation) Puzzled or stumped by.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.
I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf... Let's leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.
Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food!” It was terrifying, man.
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity will not attain great prosperity.
A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires.